4th of July Tribute to Veterans | President Reagan | Medal of Honor | RRC | Marine Recon | SpecOps
Combat Story
Ryan Fugit
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🗓️ 4 July 2024
⏱️ 5 minutes
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A Tribute to Our Veterans | Combat Story Podcast
In this heartfelt episode of the Combat Story podcast, we pay tribute to the brave men and women who have served our country. This special video features President Reagan's iconic July 4th, 1986 address to the Nation, seamlessly blended with powerful responses from veterans about whether they would choose their military careers again.
Join us as we honor their courage, sacrifice, and unwavering dedication to protecting our freedoms. Their stories remind us of the true meaning of patriotism and the profound impact of their service on our nation's history.
🎖️ Featured Veterans (in order of appearance):
- Earl Plumlee Medal of Honor Recipient, Marine Recon, and Special Forces - https://youtu.be/5KhMftSc8mg
- Mike Edwards - JSOC Omega & Ranger RRC - https://youtu.be/MBTBFCRdbdU
- Delta Force Operator Brent Tucker - https://youtu.be/_uXX7NVwwtg
- Navy SEAL Sniper Mark Greene - https://youtu.be/vNeDkhlFRlo
- FBI Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) Operator Greg Shaffer - https://youtu.be/gDye1XOXBxo
- CIA Legend Glenn Corn - https://youtu.be/hnc9ZyOOK8A
- Marine Sniper and Recon (killed Juba) - AJ Pasciuti https://youtu.be/T4QI-5sNeCs
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | My fellow Americans, in a few moments the celebration will begin here in New York Harbor. |
| 0:11.0 | It's going to be quite a show. Would you go back and do that again? |
| 0:15.0 | Oh, in a minute. Yeah. The only thing keeping me from, you know, serving a hundred years is, you know, I can't really tie my boots if cold weather moves in. |
| 0:26.6 | Huge bronze, huge liability. |
| 0:29.2 | All the celebration of this day is rooted in history. |
| 0:33.0 | It's recorded that shortly after the Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia, |
| 0:39.0 | celebrations took place throughout the land and many of the former colonists they were just |
| 0:44.6 | starting to call themselves Americans set off cannons and marched in fife and |
| 0:49.6 | drum parades. Yeah I wouldn't change it for the world. It made me who I am today, you know, those skills that I got are like, like my wife used to say, they're the skills that pay the bills, you know, and then not only that, they're the skills that I can use to help other people out to use to help other people |
| 1:05.9 | out to with USPA. |
| 1:08.0 | Created a nation built on a universal claim to human dignity on the proposition that every man, woman, and child |
| 1:15.0 | had a right to a future of freedom. I wish I had two lives. You know, I don't know if I could do a life without that again, just the memories and the feeling of satisfaction |
| 1:26.8 | of doing what I did. |
| 1:29.8 | But, I wish I could be a banker, you know, as well. |
| 1:34.0 | I need two lives. |
| 1:35.0 | I need one with all the excitement. |
| 1:37.0 | I need one where I show up at home with my kids every day |
| 1:39.0 | and I never miss a thing. |
| 1:41.0 | We reflected too on their courage in coming great distances and |
| 1:45.8 | settling in a foreign land and then passing on to their children and their |
| 1:49.6 | children's children. The hope symbolized in this statue here just behind us, the hope that is America. |
| 1:57.0 | I would take every step exactly the same because there was growth through struggle and some obstacles that you had to figure out. |
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